Brighthand on UMPCs

[Admin]

Brighthand have an editorial about the recent Origami Project saying 'Ultra Mobile PCs are going to be very important'.

Ed Hardy (Brighthand's Editor) feels that the new UMPCs will be bought by people who used to buy high end PDAs or those looking for a lighter laptop replacement.

Personally, I find my M5000 PDA/phone a bit too bulky so I'm not really interested in a UMPC as a high end PDA replacement. It's a bit more appealing as a laptop replacement but I've been having problems with my present laptop running a bit slow when it has a few apps open and it's a lot better spec'd than the UMPC.

There probably is a niche for these things - probably running EMRs or in similar one-app environments where the processing power of a laptop isn't required. In fact UMPCs might be ideal for people who are considering a tablet but have held out for price reasons.

[UberTablet.blogspot.com]

Once again properly diagnosed "Admin." UMPC was a project borne out of the necessity to drop Tablet PC prices and therefore incentivate Tablet PC sales worldwide. What we'll see, ideally, is sales go from the early adopters and quickly move onto the verticals and mainstream. If the price target (of under USD 1,000) is met by the OEMs we then have a chance at having developers become more innovative and willing to push the UMPC as an end-solution.

If you consider the ammount of PDA specific applications being run today - that could do with a slightly larger screen size, and beefier processing - then there is an instant demand for UMPC worlwide...not every app needs dual core one million "giga-gaga herts" machines!

[medicalmarvel]

things are going i suppose for the people who keep looking for better appliances. Hopefully the new PDA device will meet the expectations of the concerned guys..